The Hybrid Practitioner

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6270-332-2
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 820 g

Exploring different, interrelated roles for the architect and researcher
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming
false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural
and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building
in the material world. It proposes the concept of
the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by
considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and
history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of possibilities for an active
engagement with the present. The book explores different, interrelated roles
for practicing architects and researchers, from the reproductive activities of
teaching, consulting and publishing, through the reflective activities of
drawing and writing, to the practice of building.
The notion of the hybrid practitioner will appeal strongly to students,
teachers and architectural practitioners as part of a multifaceted professional
environment. By connecting academic interests with those of the professional realm,
The Hybrid Practitioner addresses a wider readership embracing landscape
design, art theory and aesthetics, European history, and the history and
sociology of professions.

Contributors: Joseph Bedford, Luis Burriel Bielza, Philip Christou, Elke
Couchez, Thomas Coward, Jana Culek, Irina Davidovici, Rosamund Diamond,
Christoph Grafe, Simon Henley, Julia Jamrozik, Sepideh Karami, Pauline
Lefebvre, Birgitte Louise Hansen, Patrick Lynch, Sereh Mandias, Louis Mayes,
Carlo Menon, Marjan Michels, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Paulo Providência, Sophia
Psarra, Helen Thomas, Steven Schenk, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Storgaard, Caroline Voet,
Wilfried Wang.

Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Voet, Caroline

Schreurs, Eireen

Thomas, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionHelen Thomas, Caroline Voet, Eireen Schreurs
Roles and Challenges of the Hybrid PractitionerEireen Schreurs, Eva Storgaard, Marjan Michels
PART 1: The Practice Perspective and Its Framework
Chapter 1Hybrid Practices: A Few Thoughts on Organic Intellectuals in ArchitectureChristoph Grafe
Chapter 2The Discipline of Concept and the Judgement of the Eye: Pedigrees of Form in Architectural PracticeIrina Davidovici
Chapter 3Values in the Making: Observing Architects Crafting Their DiscoursePauline Lefebvre
Chapter 4Notes on Interpretation: Analysing Architecture from the Perspective of a Reflective PractitionerBirgitte Louise Hansen
Chapter 5The Building within the City: Contingency and Autonomy in Architectural Design and ResearchSophia Psarra
Chapter 6Architects Who Read, ILAUD, and Reading as Direct ExperienceElke Couchez
PART 2: Reciprocal Negotiations: Teaching Architecture
Chapter 7Lost and Found: Intuition and Precision into Architectural Design, Studio Structural Contingencies KU Leuven, 2016–2021Caroline Voet, Steven Schenk
Chapter 8Architecture from Drawing: A Brief Inquiry into Three TypesRosamund Diamond
Chapter 9Time in Unit 9: A Comparison between the Projected Life of the Drawing, the Residues of Living, and Lived ExperienceTom Coward
Chapter 10A Dialectical Sketch: The ARU Studio by Florian Beigel and Philip Christou, London, 2000–2018Louis Mayes, Philip Christou
Chapter 11The Building Is Present: The 1:5 Model as a Way of Seeing, TU Delft, Chair Buildings, Interiors, Cities, 2018–2019Sereh Mandias
PART 3: Different Worlds and Other Places
Chapter 12The Mysteries Encountered When Finding RealityHelen Thomas
Chapter 13Starting from the Mess: The “Environment-Worlds” of Architectural Research and DesignSepideh Karami
Chapter 14Examining Utopias: Comparative Scales as a Transdisciplinary Research MethodJana Culek
Chapter 15Growing Up Modern: Lessons from Childhoods in Iconic HomesJulia Jamrozik
PART 4: Stepping Back from the Object
Chapter 16Rem Koolhaas’s House with No Style: The 1992 Shinkenchiku Residential Design CompetitionCathelijne Nuijsink
Chapter 17Instagram, Indifference, and Postcritique in US Architectural DiscourseJoseph Bedford
Chapter 18Being-With/A Tacit Alliance: Architecture, Publishing, and the Poetic Reciprocity of Civic CulturePatrick Lynch
Chapter 19Agency and Critical Editorial Devices in Recent Little Architecture MagazinesCarlo Menon
PART 5: The Values of the Object
Chapter 20Understanding ArchitectureWilfried Wang
Chapter 21Tracing Álvaro Siza’s Traces: To Fabricate A Construction of TimePaulo Providência
Chapter 22Drawing as a Research Tool: The Case Of Villa Dall’AvaLuis Burriel-Bielza
Chapter 23Facade StudiesSimon Henley
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Voet, Caroline
Caroline Voet is an architect (VOET architecten) and professor of Architecture and Design at KU Leuven.

Schreurs, Eireen
Eireen Schreurs is an architect, teacher and researcher at Delft University, KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp.

Thomas, Helen
Helen Thomas is a writer, publisher, architect and senior research fellow at ETH Zurich.